But these methods are plural...

But these methods are plural, and are applied to very specific processes - they have not steered research from the beginning but have been the fruit of it, generated during research, and are subject to criticism, control and checking. What is denied here is the existence of the great universal, uniform, and logical scientific method. What is denied is the existence of a logic machine to produce or justify with certainty what science enounces.

What is denied is the existence of a metamethod to generate, monitor and check the first-order methods and standardized procedures. What is denied most forcefully here is the identification of this supposed scientific method with human reason. [^50] Popper, K. (1983) Realism and the aim of science…